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I went to a tournament on the day fifth dawn came out (sealed deck) and I found a lot of very interesting facts about the set. I found the cards that use Scry very helpful. I played black and a ton of artifacts. Black did the most damage with cards like Lose Hope

. Many people would say sacrificing a creature for 1 damage may not be worth it but I beg to differ! Think about it, I block your 2/2 with my 1/1 then sac the 1/1 after damage to deal an extra damage to the 2/2 to kill it! I used that concept to slowly deal damage then finish my opponent. The two cards that really won the games for me were Blasting Station

gave my creatures a huge bonus! Think about it a 1/1 artifact creature and you have 3 other artifacts out, the creature gets +5/+0! The card is huge when you have 2 or more artifacts out. I also found the ability to attach at instant speed very helpful when attack with more than one creature. Playing mono black gave me a great chance to play Dross Golem

and cards that dealt direct damage. What my deck got killed most often was whenever it faced cards that fly. Against green my deck had a hard time dealing with the artifact removal destroying cards like Cranial Plating

. Now I'm going to explain in detail about what happened in the tournament:

Round 1Game 1: I had way too much mana coming my way as I could only play cards that gave me no advantage whatsoever against my opponent. My opponent playing red and black picked away at my life with black then used Magma Jet

to draw extra cards. He ended up getting no creatures and only 3 mana giving me an easy win. So far 1-0Game 2: I really think that kid only put in like 5 mana in that deck because he only got 4 mana that time and Beacon of Creation

dealing all the damage. He attacks with a 5/1 and a 4/4 so I decide to block his 4/4 with a 4/4 of my own then after damage, sac the 4/4 to deal 1 damage to his 5/1 killing it, and me taking no damage. That is what I did the whole game block, then sac for 1 damage but I have to honor it for the last damage for a win. So far: 2-0Totals: 3-1 (pretty good)

Round 5Game 1: For the first time that night I got mana screwed giving me no mana and him a clear way for his creatures. A big hurtful loss so far: 0-1Game 2: A great game but what really killed me was his Composite Golem

, or else things would be different, but my last game was a loss So far: 0-2Totals: 3-2

I played great but red got the best of me. Next time I am going to play more ways to get rid of artifacts, but it was sealed deck so you can't really blame me for what I got. Overall I finished a solid 5th out of 12.

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